Metal Nanoparticles Enhanced Optical Absorption in Thin Film Solar Cells

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanlu Xie ◽  
Fang Liu ◽  
Di Qu ◽  
Qi Xu ◽  
Yidong Huang
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Optical Absorption ◽  
Metal Nanoparticles ◽  
Thin Film Solar Cells

Enhancement of optical absorption in silicon thin-film solar cells with metal nanoparticles

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 057105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Shi ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Xueqing Yu ◽  
Lili Yang ◽  
Yuanpei Xu
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Optical Absorption ◽  
Metal Nanoparticles ◽  
Thin Film Solar Cells ◽  
Silicon Thin Film

Metal nanoparticles enhanced optical absorption in thin film solar cells

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanlu Xie ◽  
Fang Liu ◽  
Di Qu ◽  
Qi Xu ◽  
Yidong Huang
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Optical Absorption ◽  
Metal Nanoparticles ◽  
Thin Film Solar Cells

scholarly journals Semiperiodic Ultra-Broadband Double-Grating to Improve c-Si Thin-Film Solar Cell’s Optical Absorption, through Numerical Structural Optimization

Crystals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mandana Jalali ◽  
Hamid Nadgaran ◽  
Daniel Erni
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Optical Absorption ◽  
Structural Optimization ◽  
Thin Film Solar Cells ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Reference Structure ◽  
Photon Management ◽  
Integrated Optical ◽  
Si Thin Film

Plasmonic gratings provide effective photon management techniques in thin-film solar cells, capable of extending the optical thickness of the solar cell’s active layer. However, the ultra-broadband nature of such application makes an optimal design of the grating structure quite challenging, since a fully periodic grating operates only in specific spectral ranges. To achieve a more broadband design, semiperiodicity is introduced, which, due to having controllable disorder, is an apt solution in broadband optical applications. In this work, semiperiodic double gratings as a broadband photon management technique are introduced in order to improve the optical absorption of c-Si thin-film solar cells, and optimized through numerical structural optimization. Physical parameters of both front and back gratings are determined taking the spectrally integrated optical absorption as the figure of merit and subsequently a semiperiodic double grating is established through adding defects to the fully periodic structure. It is shown that such semiperiodic structure is capable of enhancing the spectrally integrated optical absorption 88.6 % compared to a reference structure without gratings.

Optical Absorption of Thin Film Solar Cells with Hybrid Arranged Bottom Grating

Plasmonics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 815-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ke Chen ◽  
Yuanyuan Wang ◽  
Hongmei Zheng ◽  
Rui Wu ◽  
Xiaopeng Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Solar Cells ◽  
Optical Absorption ◽  
Thin Film Solar Cells
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